Twenty-Four Plus Six

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Never before had I felt so acutely desperate to comfort one of my children and never had I felt so useless so restricted and unable to act.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>This is </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the story of a baby who becomes a morphine addict before she's even due to be born; a tale of medicalised motherhood littered with cannulas feeding tubes and surgery consent forms. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Amy Brett's baby girl is unexpectedly born only twenty-four weeks and six days into her pregnancy and is immediately rushed to intensive care Amy and her family are thrown onto the most terrifying rollercoaster ride of their lives.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Amy's account of her journey through neonatal care is loaded with </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>impossible choices and heart-wrenching moral dilemmas. It is stark evidence of the need for greater compassion sensitivity and family integration in the neonatal setting. Yet</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> it is also a love story between a mother and her child who defies the odds time after time; a heartfelt testimony to the courage and endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity and living proof of our capacity for infinite hope in the darkest of times.</span></p>